The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1914, Page 1

GOD HATES A COWARD! The Humphrey yellow streak is again on exhibition. A few days ago Congressman Humphrey made a bitter speech against President Wilson and the plan for a government-owned merchant marine to meet the war requirements. He expected the usual applause from the money-grabbing gang. But even that bunch had better sense. The country was aghast at Humphrey’s lack of decency in a time so fraught with delicate situations. So he is now curling up and quitting. ‘I am a patriot,” he shouts. “I am going to stand behind President Wilson. Hurrah for Wilson!” The same old trick Humphrey played on Joe Cannon, you remember. Praised Can- non one day, and repudiated him the next day to get votes. “GOD HATES A COWARD.” JOSH WISE AST am The Seattle Star AST ct it warant ter bananas, | The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News WEATHER FORECAST — Good peanuts and cantaloupes, Bee. news, folks Mr. Salisbury says leysport would have no use for a ~ ———— - - ahagegniast oko et VOLUME 16. NO. 159. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 cloudy tonight and Sunday, probably ONE CENT Se" r tien * rain; cooler 1914, GERMAN GUNS DRIVE OFF JAPS U.S. Wamed by Winston Churchill lao * PEKIN, Aug. »—\ RO ERT 0U K S LOOK By WM. J. SHEPHERD Japanese landing on the} B R NDER TA E (Copyright, 1914, by United Press.) Kiaochau coast, south of LONDON, Aug. 29.—First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill today grant- the vd i bat — red AT AMERICAN CAFE, FAVORITE ied me an interview on the subject of the European war. cording to advic . cived tee ots: © 3) DAT OF ROUGED ‘HUNTRESSES s-acea “white Paper”\on Foreisn Minister Sir Eduard Grey's ne. ij German guns on the shore gotiations, saying: forts. “Oh, there is our case—and all we ask of the American peo- It is not believed the) ple is that they should study it with severe, impartial attention.” Japanese will have much} I then asked him what was the underlying cause, apart from difficulty ee taking a the actual steps which led to the rupture. He replied, in effect, wa pit etrongeeniPcroe that the war was started and was being maintained by the Prus- fie of great strength. . sian military aristocracy, which set no limits to its ambition for The Japanese blockad- world-wide predominance. 9 ing warships are still inac-! | “In a word,” he said, “it is the old struggle of 100 years ago tive, no general bombard-| |against Napoleon. The grouping of the forces is different; the cir- ing having been attempt- | cumstances are different; the occasion is different; man, above ed. lall, is different—happily—but the issue is the same. We are at \grips with Prussian militarism. England stands right in the path lof this ever-growing power. “Our military force is perhaps small, but it is good, and it will grow; our naval and financial resources are considerable and with these we stand be- tween this mighty army and dominion which would certainly not be content with Euro- pean limits.” Asked whether the end of the war would see some abatement of the struggle of arm- aments, he replied: “That depends upon the result. If we succeed, and if, as a result of our victory, Eu- rope is rearranged as far as possible with regard to the principle of nationality and in ac- cordance with the wishes of the people who dwell in the various disputed areas, we may look forward with hope to a great relaxation and easement. “But if Germany wins, it will not be a victory of the quiet, sober, commercial ele- ments in Germany, but a victory of the blood and iron military school, whose doctrines ‘and principles will then have received a supreme and terrible vindication. ieee TS. ee “1 cannot understand why Germany has not been contented with her wonderful Progress since the bat- tle of Waterloo. For the last half century she has been the center of Europe; courted by many; treated with deference by all. No country has had such a reign of prosperity and splendor. “Yet all this time she has been discontented; solicitous of admiration; careless of international law, wore shiping force, and giving us all to understand that her triumphs in the past and her power in the present were little compared with what she sought in the futu e. “Now the great collision has come, and it is well that the democratic nations of the world—nations, I =e where the people own the government and not the government the people—should realize what is at si e. a anit cna sce a oT t ‘a e =n is ae eric: , rave , att : RUSSIANS ARE By Robert Rounder suctetet to sera, an. son} trae sir te ul scate. with the kind of cilisation Wile Ties Pace such eet CY, Popular election, and parliamentary het 4 too-red lips invited| nice. Sort of start the evening for : rat ¢ rer z : oy 4 " . IN KONIGSBERG | 7 cree thine at the American oT eprieati rs us.” |the highly efficient imperialist bureaucracy and military organization of Prussia. That is the issue. No parti- 8T. PETERSBURG, Aug. 29. wae a A walter, had come and stood) (Continued on Page 2.) But at a table next to ours glee dist at ty important ety of Kovigesers, \”| Only in years wore these siris|tice in'this the sort of fustice we) ,, Scotch ins lone elaan sald one If The Germans took refuge in the| youthful. Their dress was deliber- (find in the Mosaic law—"an eye for) NOUNS bathe amiok lanka.” H cit |, which was invested. ately designed to attract male at-|4n eye. | “Bourbon for mine—straight,” pen lve Inu es ere Every Day and ‘ll Know All You W All About the European War A strong Russian force, it is an-|tention. The materials followed a| You have had reminders in pre) iii tar “We had some par NEW YORK, Aug. 28-— By Fred L. Boalt. fous articles that the hunt goes on | Mounced, has already crossed the/ little too closely the contour ot)’ last night, and I’ve got a thirst like | in perfect|Unceasingly, and that man is the algnt, a | Vistula river. This was the line| body and limb to be Ds henter, Sy wB<y jan ocean full of fish. | Sharp reply to the exclusive in- “THE HUNTRESSES” KAISER PLANS BLOW AT ALLIES LONDON, Aug. 29.—The German forces along the French frontier, seemingly indefatigabiy alert, are reported today in movement against the French frontier for- ‘Wm. Shepherd ties here see in the movement a German pian to fling its southern army across the French border. then crush the allies between this force and the German army oper- Bting south from Beigium, before British reinforcements can reach them. RUSH TROOPS TO STOP INVADERS BERLIN, Ger., via Amsterdam, Aug. 29.—Orders that the Russian advance into Germany be checked at once were issued by the war of. fice today. Troops of the first fine, strengthened by the second reserves and Landstrum reservists, were being rushed eastward. An Austrian corpse is coming to thete| pare, he Austrians are being with-| drawn from the Servian frontier to Bk Garvosn setue- ct to Betoetons WE ACCEPTED THE INVITATION in n OUR CHAIRS — fense is bi ce, ‘ine ‘German “ of. sate yrigtd OVER IN THE CORNER fective, it te said, and Ahe acsertion - WAS AN OLD WOMAN. was made that the Russian ad vance has been checked. ‘girls sat. Well, there is a certain stern jus-| Waiting. the Gi dec! the ii |taste. Skirts were hitched up the | fill th ous be ahakle te tng tsa] Der sonll trifle to show silken hosiery.|, And here you have the hunted) ane Per as iatesopes took rod count of its strong fortifications. | Cheeks which had long lost the art | wi gg: OE honorable) *6a!n" the preliminary patter neces: The czar’s forces are moving|of blushing had been tinted with °, O sary in learning whether the quarry C3 ' through East Prussia and Austria| consummate skill, in simulation of men, have had our sport, and, lo | may prove worth pursuing. exact! lanned, | youth and h h and innocence. the quarry takes terrible reprisal. “gtewed| terview given the United Pi Today the line of the allies stretches from Cambrai, in the department of Nord, to Epin: I, xt Magali Beth yp Mom Tobe dress, I say, was Gelfverately |“Your ew rte, Bons, ye SCOP |jact wight’ "They, had beer out| in London by Winston Church: | department of Vosges—200 miles clear across the north of France. pines ae eb cbse. "9 +185 A lah li — ful ones, |with “a couple of live ones.” The| tl, first lord of the British ad- | When the kaiser yesterday told Berli hat German arms had put an “iron ring” around the allies, ‘Tis | who know their shame!” “live ones” had “burned up a lot) Miralty, was voiced here this | he was, apparently, telling them what they wanted to hear. BUT IT ISN'T TRUE—YET. ° @ of money,” and they had “certainly| afternoon by Count von Bern. | Almost certainly, the Germans are attempting flanking movements around both wings. Once ac- LOOKING FOR “LIVE ONES” warmed their fingers at the bon-| ‘“Storff, the German ambassador. | complished, the “iron ring” will be complete, and the way to Paris clear. @ fire.” | “Churchill, who is largely re But on the west, at least, the German flankers have been themselves flanked by furlous Belgians and We joined the huntresses They had no time, they assured | sponsible for the war,” sald Am-| British marines landed at Ostend, The Belgians are determined to avenge the destruction of their historic “Just in time boys. I was just us, “for cheap skates.” They had! bassador von Bernstorff, “and who is | clty of Louvain, which, whether we accept the German or the Belgian version, was wanton. going to buy a drink.” | sized us up first off as being “live| known to have proposed an attack Victorious at nearly every point, the kalser’s case is nevertheless desperate. Time assuredly Is on | ‘This 1s technically known as) ones.” on the German fleet before the | the side of the allies. “stalling.” The huntress had no| Then to business: war started, certainly ts not a fair Already the Russians have occupled the Important city of Konigsberg and crossed the Vistula river, [intention of buying a drink. We! “Boys, we've got a date for 10:30,| authority in this case. Churchill's | which the Germans said could not be crossed because of the strength of its fortifications, And already protested politely that the honor|unless you want to get up a Httlo|appeal to the American people {s|the kaiser is having to split hie fighting forces to check the Russian advance. party. We could ditch the other| based entirely on the wrong as Meanwhile, the allies are sitting tight. The dispatches say the fighting is desperate, the fatalities two if—" |sumption of a separation between appalling, but details are lacking. U | The quarry was elther too wary|the emperor and the so-called mil This greatest of wars promises to become also the most grotesque. | or not worth while. Briskly they|itary aristocracy of Germany on GREAT BRITAIN IS CALLING UPON ITS INDIAN ARMY, IN ORDINARY TIMES 380,000 STRONG, | stood in a Second av. crowd for an hour and heard the European rose. Time is money. Jone hand, and the German people |§0,000 OF THESE TROOPS BEING WHITE, QUASI-INDEPENDENT CHIEFS, BUT LOYAL TO THE war discussed from soup to nuts. | could not but marvel at th: ’ | “So long, boys. See you some|on the other, This assumption Is| LION, HAVE STANDING ARMIES TOTALING HALF A MILLION MEN, PERFECTLY EQUIPPED AND curbstone military experts who had the map of Europe at their tong | lother night.” lentirely wrong. SKILLED IN WAR. end, as they outlined one army maneuver after another. It is the com-| Ais | No use frightening Indifferent! “it is proved wrong by the fact! — There are, In addition, about 2,000,000 natives of enlistment age who have served with the colors and mon practice to laugh at these fellows—littie men, we say, who Itke| | game Even a eap yeaa re are that German acelbiint memocrats | weuls again. to talk of big things. . ro . not to be sneezed at when the bhunt-| yoted credits In parliament for the | Great Britain, France and Belgium have considerable armies of black men in their African colon’ Well, | don't know. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—By a0) ing is poor war, The leader of the German | witi be drawn Into the conflict. 8 onien Whe. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, had a dream the other day. It overwhelming vote, the senate to-| @ | socialist democrats arose in parila- Thus we shall see before long black men from Africa, Orientals and possibly Tartars fighting side by of an electric airship. If the village genius had said the) aay confirmed the nomination of} | SEES THE TRAP SPRUNG | |ment and sald: aide with English, French, Belgian and Slav against a common enemy—the Teuton. same thing nobody would ha’ id any attention to it. Hundreds of | MeReynolds, former at: — ae wohupecnd “We have always been Many military authorit mainta the theory that In so devastating a conflict as a pan-Euro- village genlu have sald it. Nelther Edison nor the village genius! James Now, you must understand that against war, but since our pean war, an interval of at | month would have to elapse between great battles to give the combat- w to make an electric airship. Probably no battery |torney general, to be a member of|these women and dozens of others| country has been attacked by | ants time to recover from their exhaustion has any Idea will ever be made which will make one posible. Certainly Edison had |the federal supreme court, and that) who were pouring Into the cafe] the worst autocrat the world Germany, however, cannot wait a month on the French frontier without suffering strategic disaster. never done anything tending to show that he will ever be able to make | 44 rhomas Gregory of Texas to| Were frankly on the prowl | knows, we stand with one mind The Germans’ announcement that the Russians had been defeated at Allenstein may mean simply that one. lsucceed McReynolds as attorney! They drifted tn atone and aaa with all the rest of the German | the Germans’ retreat upon the Vistula fortresses is being conducted in orderly fashion.. But the hypnotic effect of genius is such that Edison’s dream gets oa) (Continued on Page 7) pe If the report that Allenstein has been evacuated by the Germans is true, it Is evident that their com- top right-hand, first-page column space, while the village genius gets | manders have abandoned the idea of field resistance. the horselaugh. | Allenstein is headquarters for the 20th army corps. There are strong field defenses, and the spot 's V'm going to take in the ourbstone military discussion again YOU’! I FIND ADDITIONAL WAR NEWS ON PAGE 2 | ideally situated In a marshy country for standup resistance. Abandonment of this great military post soon as possible. Occasionally the village genius has as interesting a would be the most serious loss the Germans have yet suffered. Idea as an Edison, you know. 5 ¢ q aes